Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable...
...which have almost the merit of original works, like Sir Thomas Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give us instead: "Here...
...dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways, Shakespeare far surpasses them as a poet, a painter of character, and an imaginative writer...
...think of ourselves, we cannot but be conscious that we are a part of the working of the great power of the universe, and that we have some kinship with it. This is surely not anthropomorphism. When the poet says that could he but know the secret of "the flower in the crannied wall" he could know what God is, he does not make God something greater of the same kind; he means that the flower has the secret of the divine power which is manifest in its life. So we can say of the soul that if we know...
...chief representatives of this school M. Bourget named M. Leconte de Lisle and M Sully-Prudhomme. Both are scientists as well as poets. M. Leconte de Lisle, the greatest of contemporaneous French poets, is a poet of nature. Actuated at once by the greatest regard for truth, and desire for poetic expression, he succeeds in picturing nature in language both accurate and poetic. M. Sully-Prudhomme produced psychological studies of character which, though they are true to life, show a depth of power and feeling equal to that of the romanticist. The school of which these men are the leaders...